Improvement in harvester-pitmen



JAC-OB L. KINTNER, OF HARRISON COUNTY, INDIANA.V

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVE-STERL-PITMEN.-

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 64,9S5,-dated May 21, 1867.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB L. KINTNER, of Harrison county, in the State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Mowing and Reaping Machines; and do hereby declare vthat the following is a full, clear, and exact description .thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification. y

My invention consists in the mode of connecting the pitman to the cutter-bar of areaping or mowing machine, and in such a manner as to prevent the jar and rattling of the connection.

In the annexed. drawings, l) represents the ordinary cutter-bar, to which is attached the pitman E, with wrist-pin C. Upon one end of this cutter-bar is formed a frame, A, Which is provided with-a square opening, into whichy are placed two journal-boxes, B B. Theseboxes are formed with a semicircular space on their inner faces, in the usual Way, but have each a vertical groove on their backs for iitting against the inner surface of the frame A.

It will be observed that the journals B B are placed Within the frame A, and the wristpin O of the pitman is passed Vthrough between the center ofthe boxes.

F F represent packing of any suitable kind, which is placed between the frame A and the grooves in the boxes, so that when the wrist! pin is inserted between the boxes it is held perfectly rigid, and can be readily tightened 1 when becoming loose by inserting additional packing. f

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The grooved adjustable journal-boxes B B,-

frame A, and packing F F, combined and arranged with the cutter-bar D, pitman E, and wrist-pin C, in the manner and for the purposes herein specied.

l JACOB L. KINTNER.

Witnesses:

Jos. CLEMENT,

G. F. Downs. 

